Grateful Dead Live at Honolulu Civic Auditorium on 1970-01-23
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- 1970-01-23 ( check for other copies)
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- Live concert
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- 968.1M
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There were 2 postings of 1/23/70 when it first got circulated all those months ago. I posted 1/23/70 a few hours after someone else (I forget who) posted the same. The one I posted may have had the track marks slightly different then the other post? For this updated Lovelight, I spliced in the original (more then a few seconds at the start to fit) WITHOUT any change to the start of Lovelight... Hence, you will not be able to tell where the splice is and the track markers and transition are dead on...
To fit on 2 CDs:
I opted to put Dark Star thru Lovelight on CD2. Or I guess one could start the Drums on CD2? The entire jam from Cryptical thru Lovelight will NOT fit on even an 80 min. CDR...
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- 2004-05-30 19:58:47
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- 2
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- 1
- Identifier
- gd70-01-23.sbd.fixed.connor.18153.sbeok.shnf
- Lineage
- ASBD > DAT > PCM-WAV > SHN
- Location
- Honolulu, HI
- Shndiscs
- 2
- Source
- Soundboard
- Transferred by
- Teddy Goodbear and Charlie Connor
- Type
- sound
- Year
- 1970
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Subject: Upuupu
This was the first show in Hawaii (after being cancelled both of the previous 2 years). They only went there twice, for four shows, all in '70. As ... others have already pointed out, this show lacks spark. There is certainly some GOGD – Black Peter ain't bad, though there are much better shows in early '70, including the following night. An interesting aspect, though, was the wealthy young dilettante "singer" who opened the show in a promoter-instigated publicity stunt. Michael Brody, aka "The Oleo Heir", had appeared, sensationally, on Ed Sullivan on the 18th, where he was allowed to play the one song he had learned – after months of wild claims and press attention, one of which was that he was one of the world's greatest musicians (oleomargarine, iydk, is life-shortening hydrogenated trans fat, dyed yellow). When the Dead deplaned, the press besieged them with questions about Brody, of whom they knew nothing, nor that he was on the bill (Jer came from L.A., where he was recording incidentals for Antonioni). He opened with his one song (a very rough You Ain't Going Nowhere), threw 300 Washingtons (a sack of bills demanded from the promoter) at the small crowd, then angrily refused to appear the next night. Chapter 14 tells the story, as does the doc Dear Mr. Brody, and his single is on YouTube. Mental illness was shoved under the rug in those days, and therefore not as recognizable as today, where events such as this are usually circumvented. After hearing the story, Graham gave Jer a copy of the rare single (this can be heard at the beginning of 2/8/70). Brody was followed by Pilfredge Sump, September Morn, and then Sun & the Moon, leaving a narrower time slot for the Dead. The OFF has most of the show and was likely released for its better qual, restoring missing tunings, circulating the partial Casey Jones, and for adding 4min47secs to Love Light (though still incomplete). Still unrecoverable are the rest of Casey Jones and the beginning of Dire Wolf.
Just one long set. A China>Rider opener is solid enough to open the bus doors for the Hawaiians. After years of thick psychedelia, you can hear Jer relish his new song, Black Peter. It's the best of the show, though the next night has an era best. Hard to Handle trainwrecks when Pig confuses all the verses and throws the band off. Then Bobby trainwrecks the first verse of Mama Tried. An excerpt of Casey Jones is on the OFF. We're missing the very beginning of Dire Wolf, but it sounds like either somebody shouts for the Coasters' Searchin', or Pig calls it. Either way he teases Jer's retort by singing a measure (off mic). Jer was close, but the song didn't exist until '57. Good Lovin' is on the bland side, but the next night again has an era best. The Other One is solid enough, if very generic, but the closing Cryptical just isn't very inspired. This is T.C.'s final Dark Star. It's fairly standard, with a Sputnik jam @10mins, but then @15½mins Jer returns to another early '69 theme that had been mostly abandoned. It's been said that Tom plays glockenspiel, but I hear none. The first two months of '70 have 8 Dark Stars, of which a whopping 5 are all-timers; but of course they can't all be. The SBD has a cut @11:33 [probably missing less than 20secs]. The OFF has an additional 6sec edit @11:40 to hide the cut. St.Stephen is affable, but Love Light is just not a good version; in fact with the vapid sections so lengthy, it's one of the worst. With the extra mins added by the OFF, we have nearly 37mins [@36:46 the OFF switches to 5/15/70b]. Assuming it went on for another few mins, it may have been the longest one. A guest comes on-mic @11:35 – probably from one of the openers. A slide player starts @16:10, and it has been assumed it's the guest singer, but it's Jer.
Overall = C 2⅓ stars
Highlights:
none rank for the era
SOURCES: The fixed_connor_18153 is an improved SBD but it still runs slow, needing +1% pitch correction, except from Dire Wolf through the first 6mins of Dark Star, which need +2% pitch. Dave's 19 has most of the show, and needs +1% pitch from Dire Wolf through 5min54secs in Dark Star.
Subject: Crazy Slide Guitar on Lovelight
Subject: Wow
Subject: Nice one
Garcia's opening salvo in Dark Star is one of his best: flowing, ... majestic phrases that build perfectly off of the main theme. There's a pretty intense space after the 1st verses, a bit wilder and wide-eyed than the 17th. However, the ending isn't quite as strong here, lacking that version's monumental extended return to the theme.
The Lovelight is also a standout; very long and hot, and one of the better versions of the year.
Subject: jerry in hawaii
The energy was high to say the least....
The audience would have been full of tripped out hippy surfers... very groovy !
Subject: L O V E L I G H T
Seond: As many have noted, from Good Lovin' ... onwards this is every bit as magnificent and inspired as 2-13-70 and, at times, better than that. The Cryptical reprise goes in a completely different direction than 2-13 but does not fail to decimate. The Dark Star shares a fair amount of DNA with 2-13, to be sure, but that can only be a good thing (out of respect for this Dark Star, I'm going to listen to it about twenty or thirty more times, I think, before I return to the 2-13 version). Every so often Bear dials the sound system into the bleeding edge of shrieking feedback (or beyond -- check out the "quiet" part of St. Stephen!).
This is a surely one of the most entertaining Lovelight's in the Archive. Thirty six minutes of greasy, groovy rock and roll. Maybe Jerry's hottest ever slide guitar on tape. What got into him? The tropical island air?
And who is the immortal freak "gettin' it on" with Pigpen in Lovelight (e.g., around 11:30-? It doesn't sound like one of the Dead. It's someone else but the person doesn't seem to be identified anywhere. One of the Airplane, perhaps (I think they shared a bill with the Dead for the Hawaii shows)? Or is it some random guy from the audience? Either way: wow.
"Get me on time", indeed.
Subject: -
Subject: Don't Murder Me
Already stated but a very crispy Black Peter.
I like how Bobby stumbles on Mama Tried but Jerry comes in with some great backing vocals to prop up the tune.
That little 50's tune they hit before Dire Wolf pretty interesting. (I wonder if NY lifer has it right)
Pigpen not just in the tunes but in the stage banter. Just love the way he gave the Dead that certain swagger.
With a good soundboard and a fine show of historic value for it's geographic location I got to give it 5 stars.
Good harmonies on GOOD LOVIN!!!
He had to die...
Subject: good spirits
This is a thoroughly enjoyable performance, neither jacked nor sluggish.
Subject: Black Peter
Subject: This show is great
Subject: "This is 1970, Jack. Not '56!"
Peace,
Bob
Subject: in Kaua'i now listening to this
OK, the recording... great sound for the time... Heard so many it's hard to compare anymore...but i'd put this close to the top...great sound, good energy, you can hear all the vocals really well and they are on cue...maybe not "smoking" but enthused no doubt, hell they're in Hawaii!!!
Subject: This is a five star show...
Not an epic Dark Star, but from Good Lovin' through the top notch Lovelight, this really heats up! High energy and well ... played from start to finish, Black Peter and H2H are standout performances as well. Goodbear sound is A/A+
(99 pts)
Subject: "This is 1970, Jack. Not '56!"
Anyone else notice Bobby muttering "come on I wanna lay ya" under his breath about 16 secs ... into track 1?
Subject: Devo's Picks
As a side note, I'm fairly certain that the jam that cuts in ... during Lovelight is from the 70-02-11 Fillmore East show with the Allman Brothers.
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Subject: mahalo
Subject: one of my favorites
Hard to hand is sick
Subject: Take a look at poor Peter...
Subject: aloha jerr
FUN!
Subject: A standout show for sure
Subject: two points
Subject: Top Ten!
The Black Peter is soulful and well sung. But the last segment is really where they cook. Nice long versions of The Other One and Dark Star- rare in 1970 to get both. Not as special as 2/13, but certainly gets you kind and with great Jerry jamming.
Some 1970 shows have weak spots, such as when Bobby attempts Green Grass, or Pig sings The Rub.
But this one grooves all the way. A nice sounding SBD too! Kick back and crank this one up.
BTW - this whole Hawaii run would make a nice Dick's Picks set, no? Tom Constanten's last shows with the Dead.
Dr. Flashback ;-)
Subject: Honest.
But here is now the truth, it has good moments, but I find it mostly dull. They sound like on autopilot mode. "Other One" and "St. Stephen" are delivered well, but not one you will say, 'Check this out!' to your friends. "Dark Star" just slugs along, never really finding a groove or even a space. "Lovelight" is just isn't that exiticing either. All in all, it's neither a good or bad show, just going thru the motions. Perhaps you will enjoy it for than I have, and please remember not trying to pick a fight, I am just giving you my honest review.
Subject: yaaaaaaa
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